[local eating] Deep winter share, penultimate

• a bag of sprouts
  
• half a pound of spinach
  
• a head of garlic
  
• five pounds of Braeburn apples
  
• a bag of frozen peppers (or tomatoes, theoretically, but I saw none of those)
  
• a head of cabbage (I chose the much smaller red over the larger green, liking how it sauerkrauts better)
  
• three pounds of carrots
  
• two pounds of radishes, a mix of black and white (hopefully watermelon ones, but not sure)
  
• a piece of "Robinson Family Swiss" cheese by Robinson Farm
  
• a dozen eggs

Some hats in black and green (mostly)

Thanksgiving weekend, I was invited to a "dinosaur disco" party, which somehow inspired me to make this hat, with a ridge along the top and scales that I thought ended up more fishlike than I'd intended. Still fun, even though it wore a bit more like one of those decorated 50s swim caps than I wanted.
( dino fish )

I really liked the color combination, and realized that the wavy top could be useful turned into a longer ridge-line below the rest of the hat, becoming a scarf-hat.
( fish hat-scarf )

That got me thinking about my usual hat shape, with a flat rather than rounded top, and how a squiggle of taller color would look. Very tall, as it turns out; I have to wear this at a tilt.
( salamander crew )

The next iteration was the same shape, but with a spiral up the hat that got taller. I think I need to block the hat to make the taller stitches have some chance of standing up.
( spiral tower 1 )

Because that one looked so much more cluttered than I'd envisioned, I tried a spiral with fewer turns, that only got tall towards the middle.
( spiral tower 2 )

Now I'm considering another hat with these colors, perhaps with side ruffles or fins, or experimenting more with layers of single crochet in spirals/squiggles instead of using taller stitches.

Oh, earlier this week I realized that some of my purple yarns went together, and I still wanted to use spirals from the previous hats, which is how I ended up with this one. (Note: there is a spiral of purple variegated yarn around the top and down the brim, visible in other photos on Ravelry.)
( purple spiral )

Last night I got a call from a friend who needed my assistance, suggesting I bring yarn. I'd been dithering about a next project (I need more yarn inspiration). With the impetus of a bunch of crochet time, I figured out something that would be satisfying. I used up some pink yarn and much of the purple.
( tea rose bouquet with grape twist )